Core Lithium Ltd (ASX: CXO) stock is trading lower on Thursday.
At the time of writing, the lithium miner's shares are down 2% to 95 cents.
This is despite some positive news out of the company today relating to its executive team.
What was the news?
This morning, Core Lithium announced the appointments of Pierre Malan as executive general manager (EGM), Development and Exploration, and Paul Benjamin as EGM, Commercial and Marketing.
The release highlights that these appointments are the culmination of a 10-month recruitment process aiming to build an executive leadership team with the requisite operational, commercial, and development capabilities to maximise value from the company's asset base, pursue growth initiatives, and guide the transition from developer to miner through the Finniss Lithium Operation in the Northern Territory.
Core Lithium's CEO, Gareth Manderson, was pleased with the appointments. He said:
I am pleased to welcome Paul and Pierre into these two key roles with the Core Lithium team. Their appointments are the culmination of a 10-month process to build an executive team with the skillsets and capability required to drive growth from this young business.
The transition from developer to miner requires us to strategically assess and reset our outlook for the business. Core's executive team is now equipped with the capabilities to guide the business through this next phase of development as we finalise commissioning, ramp up toward steady state operations and pursue mine life expansion through targeted and systematic drilling across our leases.
In addition, the company has registered its new head office in Perth, Western Australia. Management notes that Perth is the corporate centre of Australia's lithium industry and provides good access to mining service providers. This is particularly the case for those with lithium industry experience and mining and project delivery talent.
Why is the Core Lithium share price falling?
The decline in the Core Lithium stock price today appears to have been driven by broad weakness in the lithium industry.
This has seen ASX lithium shares such as Liontown Resources Ltd (ASX: LTR) and Pilbara Minerals Ltd (ASX: PLS) fall 3% and Allkem Ltd (ASX: AKE) drop 2% in early trade.
